Washington, Feb 10 (.) ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and ‘Sinners’ emerged as double winners at the 16th annual Lumiere Awards, presented Monday at the Beverly Hills Hotel by the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS) to celebrate outstanding creative and technical achievements in visual technologies, according to Deadline.
Dubbed the “Oscars for geeks,” the winners were selected by members of Hollywood’s creative and tech communities. Sinners won Best Live Action Feature Film, with the award presented by Best Supporting Actor nominee Delroy Lindo to producer Sev Ohanian. Several members of the film’s sound team also accepted the Best Audio for a Theatrical Film award.
“These Lumiere winners produced their brilliant stories by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible creatively and technically,” said Jim Chabin, president of AIS. “In these honorees we see our industry’s future — and that future is truly more exciting than ever,” as quoted by Deadline.
Other film awardees included ‘Zootopia 2’, ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’, and F1. On the television side, honorees included Andor, Severance, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
Deadline reported that special honors were also presented: Ethan Hawke received the Distinguished Artist Award for his performance in Blue Moon, Jon M. Chu was honored with the inaugural Judy Garland Legacy Award for directing Wicked: For Good, and Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer were jointly awarded the Harold Lloyd Award for their work on F1.
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